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Re: [Xen-users] Xen in Xen (EC2?)

To: David Erickson <halcyon1981@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen in Xen (EC2?)
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:32:21 +0200
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On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 04:24:30PM -0800, David Erickson wrote:
> Hi I am curious if anyone has tried to get a Xen hypervisor kernel and
> dom0 booted on top of EC2, enabling you to virtualize your already
> virtualized infrastructure? And if so what sort of issues you ran into
> and if it was successful or not.  I'm also interested in hearing why
> or why not this can or cannot be done :)
> 

I don't think that's possible.

EC2 offers you paravirtualized guests; you cannot boot xen hypervisor as
a paravirtualized guest.

-- Pasi


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